Who thought it would be a good idea to limit the length of a dns record to 255 chars?

Is one really not allowed to use a proper dkim key in 2018!

The funny thing was that they just cut off the rest without informing the user!

Had to convince the guy to switch dns „provider“

It is defined by the RFC.
1024 key lenght is enough really, and if the software that verify the dkim cant handle that they are split - the software is bad.

@Linux Interesting I did not know the RFC specified a specific length...

But what do you mean by split?
Because what I experienced was a tool that erased half of my key

I have to say although there is nothing much you can win in this case, I think a 1024 bit key is too easy to crack

@needToRoll
What tool did it? A proper DNS service does split it, check other TXT records and you should be able to find the other part.

Well, there is no encryption made so

Namecheaps webinterface for DNS management

@needToRoll
They sure should have thought about that I hope :)

Before moving to another provider I contacted the support and they told me it’s impossible

@needToRoll
Well, thats stupid...

@Linux and that’s the reason why I rant

@needToRoll
afraid.org do have good service